Evaluating the impact of roof rainwater harvesting on hydrological connectivity and urban flood mitigation by Quang-Oai Lu, Reza Bahramloo, Jesús Rodrigo-Comino, Jun Wang, Ali Talebi, Quynh Thi Phuong Tran, Afshin Ghahramani, Mehdi Sepehri

“…However, the success of Roof rainwater harvesting in urban areas depends on technical, social, and regulatory support, as well as public acceptance for non-potable uses.…”
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Assessing Four Decades of Land Use and Land Cover Change: Policy Impacts and Environmental Dynamics in the Min River Basin, Fujian, China by Weixuan Huang, Anil Shrestha, Yifan Xie, Jianwu Yan, Jingxin Wang, Futao Guo, Yuee Cao, Guangyu Wang

“…., LULCC and landscape indices) in forests, croplands, urban areas, and water bodies from 1980 to 2020 using the China National Land Use/Cover Change (CNLUCC) and ArcGIS Pro 2.3. …”
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Esthétiques sonores et transsensorielles du rapport à la ville dans les parcs et jardins urbains by Jeanne Lafon

“…Although the majority of users seem to appreciate the sound quality of urban parks and gardens and consider them as isolated spaces protected from the city and traffic noise, this is the expression of idealised representations and does not reflect the real situation. In urban areas such spaces are permeable to urban sounds. …”
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HOW DO SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS INFLUENCE THE PROBABILITY OF FINANCIAL INCLUSION? EVIDENCE FROM A TRANSITIONAL ECONOMY by Hong Thu Nguyen, Kieu Oanh Dao Le

“…The results show that human capital, education, and living in urban areas increase personal financial inclusion, while age has an inverse relationship with financial inclusion. …”
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What are urban mangroves? by Gabriela Reyes, Ashley Smyth, Laura Reynolds

“…The following document describes the role of mangroves in urban areas. This document is intended for coastal residents, coastal resource managers, and urban planners who are interested in learning about mangroves and their importance in cities. …”
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Agri-business for elderly people through the Internet by Kenji Hashimoto

“…Firstly, it overcame the distances between the peripheral producing regions and the consumer markets in urban areas. Secondly, it overcame the disadvantageous condition of being based in a mountain village with a low population density, where it is difficult to develop a communications infrastructure. …”
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The assessment of the use of vehicles with different types of drive in car-sharing systems by Ewelina Sendek-Matysiak

“…This issue is particularly important in urban areas, where congestion generates significant economic costs and poses specific risks to the environment and air quality, ultimately negatively affecting the health of residents. …”
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Trends in incidence and mortality of prostate cancer in Ningbo City from 2011 to 2023 by ZHANG Qun，WANG Yong，CHEN Jieping，BAO Kaifang，FENG Yueyi，Wang Xiaoli

“…The Chinese-standardized incidence of prostate cancer was higher in urban areas than in rural areas, and both showed upward trends (25.14/105 vs. 19.44/105; AAPC=9.057% and 14.272%, both P<0.05). …”
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Sustainable Architectural Design Under the Effect of Global Warming by Nihal Zengin, Ruşen Yamaçlı

“…The resulting building stock causes agglomeration in urban areas. Climate change caused by urban agglomeration leads to global temperature change. …”
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Prevalence and Determinants of Geohelminthiasis among School-Age Children in Jimma City, Ethiopia by Ahmed Zeynudin, Teshome Degefa, Sultan Suleman, Abdulhakim Abamecha, Zuber Hajikelil, Andreas Wieser

“…The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and determinants of STH infections among SAC in peri-urban areas of Jimma City, Southwestern Ethiopia. A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted in five peri-urban Kebeles of Jimma City from July to September, 2021. …”
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Un scrutin pour trois pays : la nouvelle géographie politique italienne suite à l’élection législative du 4 mars 2018 by Matteo Cavallaro, Davide Policastro, Guido Salza, Massimo Angelo Zanetti

“…We then observe the relationship between the distribution of electoral preferences and the distribution of a series of socio-demographic variables, in order to identify the main elements describing these “three Italies”: (i) the country of the small northern cities, with leghista hegemony, (ii) an Italy made of large and well-educated urban areas, which votes for the centre-left, and finally (iii) the poor regions of the South, newly acquired areas for the M5S.…”
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Research on Parking Service Optimization Based on Permit Reservation and Allocation by Duo Xu, Huijun Sun

“…Parking facilities in central urban areas have limited supply, high utilization, and turnover rate, leading to the high parking cost. …”
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Le jardinage dans l’espace public : paradoxes, ruses et perspectives by Aurélien Ramos

“…Among the public policies in support of nature in urban areas developed since 2007 in the wake of the Grenelle de l’environnement (Environmental Round Table), the measures encouraging city dwellers to garden in public spaces constitute an innovative form of governance. …”
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Les marges sociales et les franges agricoles se tournent-elles le dos ? by Alice Nikolli, Julie Le Gall, Myriam Laval

“…Based on the exploratory notion of the food landscape, we have sought to test the importance of the representations the inhabitants of disadvantaged urban areas have of the agricultural fringes and of the opportunities they provide as food sources. …”
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Using e³value for the Transformation of a Rent-a-Car into a Robotaxi by João Pedro Nina Rosa, António Reis Pereira, Paulo Pinto, Miguel Mira da Silva

“…The primary objective is to enhance shared autonomous mobility options, resulting in increased road safety, decreased traffic, and decreased emissions in urban areas. As a result, modelling Waymo can serve as a foundation for expanding the use of shared autonomous vehicles by other businesses in different geographic areas.…”
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From Exchange to Inter-knowledge: Ethnography and the Invisible Facts of Political Work by Julieta Quirós

“…Drawing on ethnographic observation from different contexts- both rural and urban areas-, the case is made for the need to rescue analytically the concept of agency and the importance of personal relations that both common sense and the scholarly literature often consider politically “weak”. …”
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REVIEW ON THE ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE ASSESSMENT by ALINA PETROVICI, CLAUDIA TOMOZEI, FLORIN NEDEFF, OANA IRIMIA, MIRELA PANAINTE-LEHADUS

“… This paper presents a synthesis of current state of the assessment of road traffic noise in urban areas considering economic, social and legal aspects. …”
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Research on Safety Resilient Space Design Strategies in Coastal Zone by WAN Xiangyi, JING Wanli, LI Li

“…This paper reviews the risks and challenges that need to be solved in building safety resilient urban areas in coastal zones, draws on the experience of coastal disaster prevention in similar areas abroad, and puts forward strategic suggestions for adapting to the safety resilient space design of China's coastal zones from three aspects of “resilient chathis-defense system-lifeline system”, with a view to providing references for the safety resilient space design of other coastal areas.…”
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Les migrantes de retour dans la Corne de l’Afrique by Amina Saïd Chiré, Bezunesh Tamru

“…These returns and "final staying’s" are more frequent in urban areas, the Ethiopian case shows also that secondary towns and the suburbs of the capital city are areas mostly preferred by returnees. …”
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A Novel Robust Tracking Algorithm in Cluttered Environments for Distributed Sensor Network by Yunting Liu, Yuanwei Jing, Siying Zhang, Hui Guo

“…The most challenging issue is nonline of sight (NLOS) problem in cluttered environments such as indoor or urban areas since the presence of NLOS errors leads to severe degradation in the tracking performance. …”
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